Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percen...
Main Authors: | Fitzsimmons, Emla, Mesnard, Alice |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24194 |
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